Cuba News

Cuban dissident Yris Tamara Perez Aguilera personifies courage. The petite Afro-Cuban dissident has suffered beatings, imprisonment and sexual harassment at the hands of Raul Castro's goons in Cuba.

Renewal underscores Friendly Planet Travel's commitment to delivering high-value cultural access for Americans eager to experience Cuba legally )-- Friendly Planet Travel announced today that it has been awarded a two-year renewal of its people-to-people license for legal travel to Cuba from the Office of Foreign Assets Control .

What has distinguished Terry from his counterparts, however, is that while most of the Cubans are either pianists or drummers, his instruments of choice have been the alto and soprano sax.

Meghan N. McGrath of Nutley was named to the fall 2013 dean's list at DeSales University.

Yulieski Gourriel speaks on his cell phone before catching his flight at the Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, Cuba, May 29, 2014.

Los Angeles, CA - Cuban born vocalist and master of the tres, a traditional Cuban style guitar, brings his finest latin jazz music to the North American audiences this coming August 5th.

Leaving parents behind, 57,000 children crossed into the United States without papers between October 2013 and June, 2014.

PRLog - Jul. 29, 2014 - NEW YORK -- Actor/DJ host Edvin Ortega will be performing for the City Parks Foundation, Summer Stage Kids at Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx.

Radio Havana Cuba Dxers Unlimited's - middle of the week program for Tuesday 29 July 2014 By Arnie Coro - radio amateur CO2KK Hi amigos radioaficionados all around the world and orbiting our planet aboard the ISS.

Sunwing Vacations will offer exclusive perks and privileges at several Melia Cuba Resorts this winter, providing added value for those planning a family vacation, adults only retreat, or a groups getaway.

NBC continues to outdo itself in reporting from the enslaved Castro Kingdom, ignoring the fact that it is one of the most repressive --and surreal -- hellholes on earth.

"We now know that any method or model which purportedly aims to achieve justice, development, and efficiency but takes precedence over the individual or cancels out any of the fundamental rights leads to a form of oppression and to exclusion and is calamitous for the people."

The UN Security Council has blacklisted the operator of a North Korean ship seized near the Panama Canal with undeclared Cuban weapons on board.

The Obama administration has no plans to use its pop-up tent city for Caribbean migrants at Guantanamo to help ameliorate the Texas border crisis of unaccompanied children crossing the border from Central America.

Havana Harbor is the heart of activity that brought the city of Havana to life and it remains the focal point of a considerable portion of the city's economic success.

Cuban government restrictions on religion remain severe although they have been eased on several fronts over the past year, according to the U.S. State Department's annual report on freedom of religion around the world.

The prison's chief of staff, Navy Capt. John A. Schoomer, confirmed that a single video record exists at the remote detention center in southeast Cuba, according to a July 15 response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the Miami Herald last year while more than 100 prisoners were on the hunger strike, 36 of them being force-fed.

A great deal has been written about the assault on Moncado Barracks in Santiago de Cuba and the Carlos Manuel de CA©spedes Barracks in Bayamo on 26 July 1953.

Cuba's repressive and apartheid dictatorship under the iron grip of Raul Castro is supposedly the moderate regime open to "reforms" with which the U.S. should be seeking rapprochement.

Perhaps not. After all, in all parasitic relations, the parasite feeds off the host, but in this case Raul was clearly the parasite, never letting go of Xi during the entire visit.